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CalendarLetters to the Editor
COMMENT Clintonism, R.I.P. How triangulation became strangulation
by Chuck Todd
FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Widening Atlantic Our growing transatlantic estrangement has less to do with George W. Bush's foreign policy than with deep social changes in Europe
by Niall Ferguson
CASE HISTORY Presidential Ailments
by Nathan Littlefield & Benjamin Healy
THE ART OF POLICY Redheaded Eskimo The corporate tax bill—an explanation
by P. J. O'Rourke
CROSS-EXAMINATION Letting Go of Roe Roe v. Wade has been deeply unhealthy for abortion rights—and for democracy
by Benjamin Wittes
THE LIST Trivial Pursuits
by Michael Slenske
THE ODDS Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
by John Sellers
Primary Sources How car insurance causes death; the Brits and foreplay; how long could you survive without the Internet?
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS A Muslim Europe? [This article is unavailable online.]
by Ross Douthat
Ten Years Later
"Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America." A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011
by Richard A. Clarke
INTERVIEWS Fatal VisionSuccess Without Victory
Richard Clarke talks about his frightening scenario of an America hobbled by terrorism—and what we can do to avoid it
by Katie Bacon [Web only]
A "containment" strategy for the age of terror
by James Fallows
Letter From Baghdad
Life in the wilds of a city without trust
by William Langewiesche
What Amy Would Do
Meet Amy Dickinson, agony aunt for the twenty-first century
by Sridhar Pappu
Lost in the Meritocracy
How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class
by Walter Kirn
STATE OF THE UNION One Nation, Divisible
by The Editors
STATE OF THE UNION Bipolar Disorder
A funny thing happened to many of the scholars who went out into the country to investigate the red-blue divide. They couldn't find it
by Jonathan Rauch
STATE OF THE UNION Shaken and Stirred
The United States is about to experience economic upheaval on a scale unseen for generations. Will social harmony be a casualty?
by Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong
STATE OF THE UNION Beyond Belief
The real religious divide in the United States isn't between the churched and the unchurched. It's between different kinds of believers
by Hanna Rosin
STATE OF THE UNION The Massless Media
With the mass media losing their audience to smaller, more targeted outlets, we may be headed for an era of noisy, contentious press reminiscent of the 1800s
by William Powers
STATE OF THE UNION Continental Divides
The Crescent of Crime, the Spousal Spine, the Divorce Coasts, the Righteous Region, and other sources of national greatness
by P. J. O'Rourke
POETRY A Place for the Bees
(from Virgil's Georgics) [with audio]
Translated by David Ferry
Field Guide
A poetry anthology
Questions of Replication: The Brittle Star
[with audio]
by Linda Bierds
The Cohort
[with audio]
by Maxine Kumin
Flying SeedPOETRY Retrospective
[with audio]
by D. Nurkse
[with audio]
by Geri Doran
Sports Names in the News
by Bruce McCall
SHORT STORY A Record Book for Small Farmers
Had her father been a coward all these years, his reticence a cover for things he was afraid to say?
by Anna North
EDITOR'S CHOICE An Exquisite Slogger
V. S. Pritchett, by Jeremy Treglown; Born Losers, by Scott A. Sandage; War in the Wild East, by Ben Shepherd
by Benjamin Schwarz
The Murdoch Touch
If Rupert's so bad, why is Fox so good?
by Tom Carson
Darling Me
Christopher Isherwood followed Oscar Wilde's prescription for lifelong romance by falling in love with himself—over and over again
by Thomas Mallon
A Nice Bloody Fool
Beneath the surface the vaguely preposterous Stephen Spender had a pith of seriousness and principle
by Christopher Hitchens
READING LIST Easier Said Than Done
Five novels by critics who learned their lesson
by David Kipen
Chameleon With a Toupee
Bobby Darin was so determined to be somebody that he tried to be everybody
by David Hajdu
A CLOSE READ Villages, by John Updike
Appraising the substance of style
by Christina Schwarz
INNOCENT BYSTANDER People to People
Some say that liberals and conservatives need to build bridges of understanding. Drawbridges might be better
by Cullen Murphy
A LOOK BACK 45 Years Ago in The Atlantic
"The Job of the Washington Correspondent"
MUSIC X Jazz
The pianist Matthew Shipp is the star of the latter-day free-jazz scene—the only scene in jazz right now with younger faces in the audience
by Francis Davis
TRAVELS Russia's Holy Warriors
Fervently Orthodox, anti-Islamic, and proudly militaristic, the Cossacks are on the rise in Vladimir Putin's new Russia
by Jeffrey Tayler
THE PUZZLER What's What
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Court
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM Broadway's Last Good Time
Cy Coleman (1929-2004)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy